DCH-RP:Glossary

This is the DCH glossary being developed in the DCH-RP project.

CLOUD: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics (On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service); three service models (Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)); and, four deployment models (Private cloud, Community cloud, Public cloud, Hybrid cloud). Key enabling technologies include: (1) fast wide-area networks, (2) powerful, inexpensive server computers, and (3) high-performance virtualization for commodity hardware. Source: The National Institute of Standards and Technologies

DC-NET: Digital Cultural heritage NETwork is an ERA-NET (European Research Area Network) project, financed by the European Commission under the e-Infrastructure - Capacities Programme of the FP7. The main aim was to develop and to strengthen the co-ordination of the public research programmes among the European countries, in the sector of the digital cultural heritage.Preservation was identified as a major priority for DCH, and a study on "Digital Preservation Services:State of the Art Analysis" was produced, serving as a basis for DCH-RP (http://www.dc-net.org)

DIGITAL CURATION: Maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital data throughout its life-cycle (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/what-digital-curation)

<span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />DIGITAL PRESERVATION: A set of activities required to make sure digital objects can be located, rendered, used and understood in the future (DigitalPreservationEurope Project, http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/what-is-digital-preservation/) 

<span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />E-INFRASTRUCTURE:An IT Infrastructure for instant access to data, remote instruments, "in silico" experimentation, as well as the setup of Virtual Research Communities and/or Virtual Organisations that is composed by one or more autonomous (maintaining their own policies)Service Providers. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />(Source: EGI Glossary: http://www.egi.eu/about/glossary/glossary_E.html)

eCULTURE SCIENCE GATEWAY (eCSG): Platform used to create the e‐Collaborative Digital Archives deployed on the COMETA e-Infrastructure. Particular attention has been paid to simplify the access to non‐expert users and to define fine‐grained authentication and authorization system that could protect digital cultural contents in an effective way: http://ecsg.dch-rp.eu/

EUROPEAN GRID INITIATIVE (EGI): A non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam established to coordinate and manage the infrastructure (EGI) on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs). 

<span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />GRID: IT Infrastructure that is concerned with the integration, virtualisation, and management of Services and Resources in a distributed, heterogeneous environment that supports collections of users and resources (Virtual Organisations) across traditional administrative, trust and organisational boundaries (real organisations). (Source: OGF GFD-I.181)

<span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />INDICATE: International Network for a Digital Cultural Heritage e-Infrastructure was an European Union FP7 project which aimed to establish a network of common interest made up of experts and researchers in the field of e-infrastructures and digital cultural heritage at Euro Mediterranean level. Through the network, the participants shared experience, promote standards and guidelines, seek harmonisation of best practice and policy. (www.indicate-project.eu)

<span style="line-height: 1.5em;" />INSTRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating  systems and applications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, and deployed applications; and possibly limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls). (Source: The National Institute of Standards and Technologies)